Crooked Smile
Part of dealing being chronically ill is learning to smile through the hard times. But right now though I’m having a hard time doing even that.
On Monday night, when I went to take my DailyMugShot, I wasn’t satisfied with my first, second, or even third attempts at my picture. My smile was crooked in all of them. Finally I realized that no amount of retakes would correct the problem. I couldn’t make my face smile evenly on the left side. In fact, the whole left side of my face was drooping slightly and my pupils were unevenly dilated.
I tried not to panic. I looked back at my older daily pictures and noticed that this had been going on all week and getting worse with each picture.
A visit to my neurologist confirmed my suspicions that as I’d been trying to taper my dose of Prednisone my brain inflammation was returning. So now I’m back up on an even higher dose of Prednisone to try and get it back under control.
In the meantime, I’m trying to continue to smile through the hard times. Even if my smile is a crooked one.
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Hope they can get things back in balance.
I have a crooked smile too! I was born that way. And honestly it is not noticeable to the average person if you had not told us. You are still as beautiful as ever!!!!
Maybe you will find a blessing in all of this. Well the obvious is you were so smart to take daily pictures of yourself. I know not one other person that does that. You are taking good care of yourself. This reminds me of a real old poem and it turned out alright for this person.
http://www.rhymes.org.uk/there_was_a-crooked_man.htm
There was a crooked man and he walked a crooked mile,
He found a crooked sixpence upon a crooked stile.
He bought a crooked cat, which caught a crooked mouse.
And they all lived together in a little crooked house
It has a very interesting base in history click on the link.
Your on my mind and in my prayers
your sissa
shannon
I can’t see it from the picture, but of course I believe you. For the last year, my smile has felt crooked. At first it looked a little crooked too, but now I think it’s looking closer to normal. One side of my face still feels so much heavier than the other. My doctor said that my face was probably uneven from birth. I asked why it was then that I was just feeling it now, and he just shrugged. It wasn’t important to him. I still feel it, but it doesn’t bother me as much. It’s an accomplishment itself, isn’t it, getting used to these things?
Crooked smile or not, you are a beautiful person. Inside and out. Keep you head up and hang in there.
The best forms of happiness and love come from those dark and difficult times. The fact that you smile no matter what is beautiful. You make me smile.
Thank you for sharing your journey: it is precious, you are precious. 
AGH! I wonder how long it might have gone on had you not done the daily mugshot? Good catch. But sorry you have to increase your pred.
I’m sorry to hear the inflammation is back. ((Hugs)) Glad you caught it early.
I’m very glad you are still trying to smile though!!!
I just wanted to let you know I gave you a couple of blog awards
You can find them at this post: http://autoimmunelife.wordpress.com/2009/10/08/awards/